Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 15 Sep 2003 6:04 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to install wine from my 9.1 CDs, which I believe are properly burned, as I can read them in Konqueror. Urpmi is ejecting the CD, and telling me that I need to install a different cd. I am assuming that some configuration file is

[expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:07:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:29:16 +0200: Linux companies are a necessary evil in my eyes. They're needed to help prevent monopolies from drowning the software world in proprietary lock-ins, as unfortunately,

[expert] Thin clients / SunRay

2003-09-15 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I was wondering something, I have worked as a Solaris admin for 6 months, and where I worked we had sunray thin clients. Now, I know that you can do something similar with Linux, using diskless PC's that boot from floppy. But is that kind of special hardware also available for Linux (they offer

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200: the projects that wouldn't have been possible: Correct me, if I'm wrong, but I think many of those included stuff, where proprietary things were involved - stuff, that had to be done from business to business. That's another aspect of

[expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread a . ranu
hi i am currently using Mandrake 9 and kernel 2.4.19 which came with it... so far my experiences recompiling the kernel have only been limited to using the kernel source rpm for mandrake... now when i try to compile the kernel source (2.4.18 and 2.4.20) from www.kernel.org, it compiles

[expert] Re: Can't post to newsgroups in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:25:18PM -0700, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: It's weird. None of my posts show up no matter what reader I use (pan, mozilla, knode). The newsreaders seem to send fine, but the post never shows up. It works fine in redhat though. I've tried shutting down iptables with

[expert] Re: Thin clients / SunRay

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:34:16AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: [...] But is that kind of special hardware also available for Linux (they offer more advantages than PC's, including lack of noise)? Can Sunrays work with Linux? To the best of my knowledge, SunRays themselves cannot be used with

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (2)

2003-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
re my attempt to get my new box working -- Soyo Dragon Plus KT400 Black, AMD XP Barton 2500+, DDR400 (512 MB), ASUS AGP V9180 Magic (MX440 8x) -- , a 2nd night's testing made progress, tho' there's still more to do. no problem with the CD drive, which i was able to mount from the RAMF118 diskette

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:40, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200: Aha. How about this: If a product is good, I don't care whether I have to pay for it or not, I'll get it. If the product is not good, I don't care about free versions, I just don't

[expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:40:51AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200: I did not mean such that involved proprietary stuff. I meant projects which involve a lot of time and engagement. If there were only people doing it in their spare time

[expert] Samba chewing to much CPU Power

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Williamson
Hello All, This must be a simple solve.. but I haven't quiet got it.. I have a server that's chewing lot's of CPU power while copying files from the M$ machines to the Samba server.. Tasks: 74 total, 2 running, 72 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 100.0% system,

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 02:58, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:07:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:29:16 +0200: Linux companies are a necessary evil in my eyes. They're needed to help prevent monopolies from drowning the software

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 05:08, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:40, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200: Aha. How about this: If a product is good, I don't care whether I have to pay for it or not, I'll get it. If the product is

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:25:08 +0200: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:40:51AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Or whether cutting that tree is really necessary? Without knowing anything about the guy who cuts the tree, he observer will not be able to know. Up till now, Mandrake

[expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread stefmit
Just worked on my laptop last night, and, while doing other things, decided to check the updates and chose to allow the X update to go through. Of course everything worked fine (update and such), but once shutting it down and restarting it this morning, in the office - X is broken. What do I

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
In a pinch, use Knoppix to autoconfigure X and then overwrite the XF86Config/Config-4 of Mandrake. If it's just a configuration problem than that might work. If not and X is toast, then a downgrade to an earlier version of X might be the only fix. This, of course, will have to be done from the

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread stefmit
Thank you for the quick answer - this is what I did not know for sure: if I can downgrade to an earlier version of X, after upgrading to the new one (more secure, 'cause I can't use it ;)). I am going right now through XFDrake (which I assume will work even under CLI), to see if I can repair

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread JM5379
sigh No. That's *not* what I'm saying. Maybe I need to differentiate more: Mandrake makes one Linux distro, but many products. I've tested the distro, as packed in the product 9.1 download edition. I liked what I saw. It's a good distro. So I want to use it. At the same time, I *do* agree to

[expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] So, why don't you read the statements of long-term Mandrake users and go to the website and read the last 3 year's news from Mandrake. They show a lot of Mandrake's commitment to Open Source. It's just one page. I'll keep

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:40, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 05:08, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:40, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200: snip If I pay a subscription fee for those channels, the commercials are not

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread stefmit
Switched to 3.3.6, and everything is OK (except for fonts in KDE, which are very ugly ... ) - still hoping for a 4.x fix ... On Monday 15 September 2003 06:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the quick answer - this is what I did not know for sure: if I can downgrade to an earlier

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:40, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 02:58, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:07:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: BSD would be a kernel just as linux is just a kernel. I bet 100%of the companies using BSD and apache-PHP/mySQL on their webserver

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread kwan
hi i am currently using Mandrake 9 and kernel 2.4.19 which came with it... so far my experiences recompiling the kernel have only been limited to using the kernel source rpm for mandrake... now when i try to compile the kernel source (2.4.18 and 2.4.20) from www.kernel.org, it

Re: [expert] Samba chewing to much CPU Power

2003-09-15 Thread Miark
On 15 Sep 2003 19:29:06 +1000, Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This must be a simple solve.. but I haven't quiet got it.. I have a server that's chewing lot's of CPU power while copying files from the M$ machines to the Samba server.. Which M$ machines? Miark Want to buy your

Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 15 Sep 2003 6:04 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to install wine from my 9.1 CDs, which I believe are properly burned, as I can read them in Konqueror. Urpmi is ejecting the CD, and telling me that I need to install a different cd. I am assuming that some

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:58, Guy Van Sanden wrote: first off,, since the attributes are sure getting confusing, (obviously) I did not think I was replying to Guy, but to T.Ribbock. On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:40, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 05:08, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Mon,

Re: [expert] HELP!! Opening firewall ports to allow conter strike online gaming...

2003-09-15 Thread Miark
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:36:17 -0700 (PDT), Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am running an ipchains firewall on my router. I have most ports closed, but I need to open the counter strike port to play online games I dont know exactly what port this involves. Can

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread a . ranu
i downloaded linux-2.4.20.tar.gz from www.kernel.org... then executed the following commands: tar xzvf linux-2.4.20.tar.gz make menuconfig (picked QoS and fair queueing... which i need... didn't really look at the rest) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make

Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 15 September 2003 07:05 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: If you installed from all three CD's, you can update CD1 by using the name urpmi.update gives you for the first CD as the argument, with CD1 in the reader. Escape any spaces with a backslash: urpmi.update Installation\ CD\ 1 This

[expert] ifpuld mandrake 9.1 - Second Request

2003-09-15 Thread Lawson, Jim
Thanks to the person who told me this for mandrake 9.1. Which file do I edit to undo this. I did look around last night. I saw ifdown / Ifup in the network script. Can I copy the network script from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.1? Also there is no way of truning it off under drakeconnect or

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just worked on my laptop last night, and, while doing other things, decided to check the updates and chose to allow the X update to go through. Of course everything worked fine (update and such), but once shutting it down and restarting it this morning, in the office -

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread kwan
the thing is i did everything up to make modules on a fast machine on the network... and then went back to my laptop... mounted my home directory with the linux-2.4.20 directory on it... and proceeded with make modules_install and make install... could that be a problem? my supervisors say it

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread stefmit
I already did that - see my follow-up comments. 4.x completely declined to work properly, regardless of my attempts to reset things, or just change them to something new. I had to choose 3.3.6 for things to work again, which is not only pathetic, but also reminds me of the_other_OS ;( Thx for

[expert] [Fwd: Printer not working]

2003-09-15 Thread diego
As sometimes my mails seem that not getting into the list (not the only one as I see by other mails), I send this mail again just if that was the case and someone can help / give a hint in my no printing problem... ---BeginMessage--- I can't get printer to work. When I try to print from

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 15 Sep 2003 10:25 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: That leaves only the product download edition if I do want the distro, which is a pity. I would have much more sympathy with your argument if you had at any point said 'so I'll take the download version and join the club' or 'make a

Re: [expert] Partitions

2003-09-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 15 Sep 2003 2:50 am, Gary Montalbine wrote: Also IIRC Anne did a TWiki on moving her /usr directory. I was unable to find it. Anne if you are reading this where did you put it? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Problems Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:57 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: IDE0 (VIA Primary) hde, hdf == My burner attached here IDE1 (VIA Secondary) hdg, hdh == My cdrom IDE2 (Highpoint Primary) hda, hdb == My boot drive IDE3 (Highpoint Secndary) hdc, hdd == My spare drive

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 15 Sep 2003 1:48 am, Charlie wrote: Disclaimer:- I am a freeloader paying only for the media upon which the O/S was written. I would probably have used windows, however, I couldn't afford it. In an attempt to pay my way and in gratitude to Mandrake and Linux, I mention Linux

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-15 Thread Birkoff
I didn't read all the replies, but here goes my opinions: - sound chip on the mobo real stinks. they arecheap solutions for cheap sound. My sugestion is to buy a separate soundcard (audigy2 from SB is an example.) - for video U really need a full video-card. Don't go with MX stuff. Better buy a

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-15 Thread Birkoff
I didnt' get the DC 10+ working under linux. tried many combinations. only gost some smoke out of it (literally). There are some drivers available but old enugh. And it has only S-video in/out and Composite in/out. Does not have fireware and also does not have anny support from pinnacle. not

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-15 Thread Birkoff
1 gb at least. 512 is minimum. anyway now ddram is cheap enough. On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:23, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 22:45 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 8:35 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread Birkoff
can't U try now to put back the original XFree 4 from the CDs? urpm can help. On Monday 15 September 2003 15:05, stefmit wrote: Switched to 3.3.6, and everything is OK (except for fonts in KDE, which are very ugly ... ) - still hoping for a 4.x fix ... On Monday 15 September 2003 06:29 am,

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:02:19 +0300 Birkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't read all the replies, but here goes my opinions: - sound chip on the mobo real stinks. they arecheap solutions for cheap sound. My sugestion is to buy a separate soundcard (audigy2 from SB is an example.) I disagree

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread John Wilson
On September 15, 2003 02:25 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: You decide that as Mandrake is getting money from elsewhere you can take the free version. All I see from you is: If I have to pay, I won't take it, because Mandrake gets enough money from elsewhere. sigh No. That's *not* what I'm saying.

[expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:35:45PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Sep 2003 10:25 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: That leaves only the product download edition if I do want the distro, which is a pity. I would have much more sympathy with your argument if you had at any point said 'so

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 15 Sep 2003 9:46 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:35:45PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Sep 2003 10:25 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: That leaves only the product download edition if I do want the distro, which is a pity. I would have much more sympathy

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:35:45PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Sep 2003 10:25 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: That leaves only the product download edition if I do want the distro, which is a pity. I would have much more sympathy with your argument if you had

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-15 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 15. September 2003 22:08 schrieb Birkoff: I didnt' get the DC 10+ working under linux. tried many combinations. only gost some smoke out of it (literally). There are some drivers available but old enugh. And it has only S-video in/out and Composite in/out. Does not have fireware

[expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:39:13PM -0700, John Wilson wrote: Perhaps I'd feel better if you could tell me one patch you contributed to a CVS, one contribution you made to a project even at high level design, one thing you've done other than complain. At least then I'd have to rethink my

[expert] Re: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:45:29PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] Of course, Thomas also pays in other ways. The only reason that I saw his situation as freeloading was because he started by saying that he would have bought, had not the matter of advertisements arisen - in other words, he

[expert] ACL Support in 9.2

2003-09-15 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I've searched the cooker and expert archives. But I couldn't find any conclusive answer rather 9.2 kernel includes XFS and ACL support. I believe ACL support was removed from the initial 9.1 kernel. Would someone care to update me on this? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Re: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-15 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 15, 2003 03:37 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: whack I've also offered the alternative of offering ad-free products for a higher price than the ad-ware. If it's money Mandrake needs, this could be a nice alternative, IMO. Curiously, no-one ever

Re: [expert] ACL Support in 9.2

2003-09-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Norman Zhang kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Tiistai 16 Syyskuu 2003 00:43): Hi, I've searched the cooker and expert archives. But I couldn't find any conclusive answer rather 9.2 kernel includes XFS and ACL support. I believe ACL support was removed from the initial 9.1 kernel. Would

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread John Wilson
On September 15, 2003 02:29 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: Happy now? (Apologies to those who *didn't* ask for this - I know it's not much compared to the bigwigs) Thomas Actually yes. And in that case I withdraw my accusations of freeloading. But I repectfully still disagree with you. ttfn

[expert] NIS question: how can I have clients use NIS for authentication

2003-09-15 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
I have NIS server set-up. Now I want to have client to have all centralized authentication. How can I make client (all mandrakes 9.1) to pick up passwords and users from central NIS server? This way when I make NFS export accessible to lets say user X, I don't have to go to client machine and make

Re: [expert] Re: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-15 Thread Bill
Why is it when I go to my local Fry's I see rows of Red Hat boxes some BSD boxes and Slackware CD's but never see Mandrake boxes. I would gladly purchase Mandrake instead of downloading it if it was in the stores. Seems to me that Mandrake needs to get there product out on the shelves. I can

[expert] Startup Script

2003-09-15 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi experts I have a little question, i would like to have a script on the startup (could be init.d) that should do two command lines: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | fgrep -i inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1 ipnumero mail -s IP Number [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipnumero I don´t know how to do a script,

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Sunday 14 September 2003 08:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: The programmer has a human readable interface, and dumps and receives intel hex format. All I need to do is the equivilent to cat file.hex /dev/Stty0 after issueing the relevant send command to the progammer. I'm not familiar with

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the thing is i did everything up to make modules on a fast machine on the network... and then went back to my laptop... mounted my home directory with the linux-2.4.20 directory on it... and proceeded with make modules_install and make

RE: [expert] HELP!! Opening firewall ports to allow conter strike online gaming...

2003-09-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
The default is 27015 but some servers use different ports. In CS, look in the menu, and go to server info. So if you allow your local net to go out on that dst port, you should be good to go. Works here. HTH Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:09, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 12:33 am, Charlie M. wrote: September 11, 2003 12:16 am, James Sparenberg wrote: whack Charlie, what do you think the chances are the 2.6 would run on 9.1? (I won't